Lyndon B. Johnson Bill Signing Pen - Partnership For Health Amendments of 1967

Description: Lyndon B. Johnson Bill Signing Pen used by the President on December 5, 1967, in signing H.R. 6418, the Partnership for Health Amendments of 1967. A similar pen used by LBJ to sign a bill just sold at auction at RR online auction for $1,283 on 11/8/23. President Johnson’s comments in the East Room of The White House were, in part… “In this partnership for health measure, we begin to try to cure some of this red tape. We begin to free the Public Health Service from the burden of paperwork so it can fight a more important battle, the battle against disease. This bill contains a three-part strategy to help them fight that battle against diseases: First, it offers assistance to States and communities to develop broad-based plans for health. We give them that obligation and that responsibility and call upon them to do their planning. Second, as quickly as these plans are ready, it provides Federal funds to help carry out these local plans. Third, it establishes a national program for research and development in health services. Even as we discover new ways to cure disease, we are testing better ways to bring these cures to the people. So the bill that we will sign contains two significant proposals: It opens the way to strict Federal and State standards for clinical laboratories. It will help rid the patient of the needless anguish of tests be has had to undergo that might be faulty. We do know from recent studies that as many as one out of four tests performed by some laboratories have been wrong tests. This bill also deals with a subject that you have heard about and read about and some people have laughed about--the subject of rats. Throughout history, rats have been the prime delivery system for our filth and for the worst diseases that human beings have. To little children in the slums, rats have really been the public enemy No. 1 And some people--some important people--I am told--thought it was a joke when we sent up the rat control bill a few months earlier. Some joked about it. The bill we are signing today shows that the American people are not laughing about it. And it shows that the Congress and the country were listening. Now it is the turn of State and community leaders to listen. Now it is time for the health officers to show that by this partnership we mean business.” DON’T BE AFRAID TO MAKE ME AN OFFER

Price: 500 USD

Location: Topeka, Kansas

End Time: 2025-01-03T05:15:04.000Z

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